Project Manager

Latest Update 14/01/2008

Project Manager is a really simple environment that I made to semplify the management of multi-file FreeBASIC projects under Linux and Windows. Within this environment you can:

See all the files in your project. The include files are separated from the source files and the documentation
Open your favourite editor on a source file (I'm using Scite)
Compile your files and start your software
Click on a compiler error and have an editor opened directly on the wrong line
Start your debugger (I'm using ddd)
Search "TODO" in all the files of your project
Search a string in all the files of your project. (Eheh... it's the same thing)
Change editor on per-project basis
Change compiler and compiler-options on per-project basis
Please see the tour to find other things Project Manager can do

Project Manager is Free Software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

Index

Project Manager Tour
- Configuration Dialog
- The Project Manager Window

Download Project Manager
Compiling Project Manager
Issues
License
Acknowledgement and Contacts

Project Manager Tour

First of all, a project is only a directory who contains source files, includes and documentation:

Source files are found using a "*.bas" filter
Include files are found using a "*.bi" filter
Documentation files are found using a "*.tex" or "*.txt" filter

The list of files in the project is ready every time you open a project or click on the "Refresh" button.

A project directory can contain a configuration file, named "project.cfg". This configuration file contains the settings and can be edited with the configuration dialog.

Configuration Dialog

The configuration dialog is divided in two tabs:

Editor	You should enter the command used to launch the editor. The string "" will be replaced by the file you have choose to edit
Editor Goto	Same as above but you should enter the command line used to launch the editor and directly goto to a line in the file. This is used for the compilation output and the search string facility
Compiler	The command line of the compiler. The list of file in the project will be appended to this command so, if you want, you can also enter your options.
Debugger	The command line of the debugger. The executable filename will be appended to this command.
Pdf Reader	The command line of the PDF Reader (not used)
Pdflatex	The command line of the pdflatex compiler (not used)
Temporary file	The path of a temporary file that will contain the compiler output
Execution command	The command line to use to execute your program. The string "" will be replaced with the executable file name. You can use this command to execute your program within a terminal.

Project Main File	This is the name of the project main file. That file will be the preceed the other sources in the compiler compilation order
LaTex Main File	(usused)

The Project Manager Window

Open Project	You can open a project choosing the project main directory
File list	You can double click on a file to open an editor
Refresh	It's useful to reload the project contents
Compile	Compile the project and switch to the "Tools Output" tab. You can double click on a error (on the line that contains the file name and the row number) to open an editor directly on the wrong line
Run	Compile and run your project
Todo	Grep your source code for the string "TODO". The output is in the "Tools Output" tab.

Download

You can download ProjectManager from here:

Project Manager 0.9.8

Project Manager for Linux and Windows. For FB 0.18.3

If you are using Windows please install the GTK Development Environment before running Project Manager. To install Project Manager you should only expand the zip file in one folder and start "ProjectManager.exe"

If you are using Linux you should expand the zip file, compile the project (see compiling), and start "ProjectManager".

The package contains also the source files.

Compiling

To compile Project Manager you can use the "compile.bat" file on windows and the "compile.sh" file on Linux. You must use the 0.7b release of FreeBASIC for Project Manager 0.9.4 and FreeBASIC CVS version for Project Manager 0.9.5dev.

Issues

Project Manager is written using FreeBASIC and GTK so please let me now about the issue you found (patches are of course welcome).

If you use linux you must start ProjectManager in it's own terminal (in foreground mode).

I don't know why it don't work without a terminal.

License

This program is licensed with the General Public Licence.

Changelog

14 Jan 2008	Bug fixes and 0.18.3 support
28 Jan 2007	Bug fixes
29 Jan 2006	First release of ProjMan

Acknowledgement and Contacts

I would like to thank the FreeBASIC guys for their wonderful product.

Please drop me an email at leonardoce@inNOSPAMterfree.it to make me know the issues or problems and if you found this project useful.